Science-fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2004 - Science fiction |
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Page 227
... thing about Mona Lisa Overdrive is that so many of the characters are waifs , young and vulnerable , deprived or bereft , and in depicting them Gibson sees things and other persons as transitional objects or prostheses . A romantic ...
... thing about Mona Lisa Overdrive is that so many of the characters are waifs , young and vulnerable , deprived or bereft , and in depicting them Gibson sees things and other persons as transitional objects or prostheses . A romantic ...
Page 235
... things . Certainly , there is no norm whereby one no longer needs things as prostheses or transitional objects because one has moved on to a full recognition of the otherness of other people . People and things are not sufficiently ...
... things . Certainly , there is no norm whereby one no longer needs things as prostheses or transitional objects because one has moved on to a full recognition of the otherness of other people . People and things are not sufficiently ...
Page 238
... things they are named after . They are new things , not imitations . They can't be lived in , which is the tantalizing prospect that so many objects of desire hold out in the world of the trilogy : a simulated environment such as the ...
... things they are named after . They are new things , not imitations . They can't be lived in , which is the tantalizing prospect that so many objects of desire hold out in the world of the trilogy : a simulated environment such as the ...
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